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The Tao Of Trading?
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Man you are messed up. I hope you're kidding. Materialism is just as spiritual as pure meditation in a cave is as spiritual as eating a hotdog watching the Cubs lose is as spritual as bowling or flying a kite with your kid.Originally posted by OPTIONAL777
Why do we need a mix of the two? Oil and water do not mix.
The eastern philosophy is complete in itself, and those who understand it fully know that what the west offers is not something needed for their path.
The pure, unadulterated eastern path has not changed since the beginning. It was complete, it is complete, and it will always be complete in its pure form. People have been practicing that path for quite a long time without the materialism the west offers.
If people really think they can absorb themselves in all the fruits of this world and it's temporal nature, and at the same time live the spiritual life that eastern wisdom offers, they are deeply confused and practicing self deception of the highest level.
The heart of materialism and the heart of true eastern spiritualism are on opposite ends of the spectum. They are not of the same substance, and they do not mix. What you think of spiritual, is actually contained within the realm of materialism, and falls into different psychic realms within your own mind, or in the celestial realms, or within the confines of your own soul. It has nothing to do with real spiritualism, which is beyond your own mind, beyond your own soul, and beyond the reach of any material being.
It all depends on where your heart is actually. Sure you can live in this world, we have to, but a truly spiritual soul seeking lasting happiness is not attached to this world, his heart is not in this world, as his goal is to find a liberation from the bondages of the never ending cycle of material life and death.
You can only serve one master, you can only move in one direction, either in the direction of this world, or in the direction of the Divine world which is not material.
If you think they are like water and oil, then that's what shrinks make their living on. People all split up.
Yeah, like I was saying, unity. In mind, in the world, between people and things. I sure hope you're kidding. That's the way I tried to live when I was young and a broad broke my heart so I said the hell with it, I'll just go be spiritual.
right, what'd I say? Waldens Pond, see, now THAT"S philosophy.Originally posted by Te'
Scarecrows and apples meet Mr. Constricted...
Tao is most definately not philosophy or a teaching, The Tao Te Ching and The Inner Chapters are no more philosophy than Waldens Pond...
You sure you're talking about the same tao? I mean the paperback version.
Anybody know of a good way to keep everything unorganized?
oh yeah, you're kidding. I feel better now. Good one. You had me worried.Originally posted by OPTIONAL777
Children can dress up like their parents and pretend they are at an adult dinner party. They can apply makeup, and use their imagination...but they remain children without real understanding of what it is to be an adult. They mimic the form of adults, acting out what they see on the surface, but have no knowledge of the inner life of their parents.
Only you and God really know what your heart is most attached to, in what direction you are really moving....
whether you are running on the treadmill of the temporal material illusions of life, or stopping to surrender to the real and everlasting.
You like to do that don't you? Play jokes. Well, you're good at it, I'll say that. Sort of like a fast change artist. He can never take you for your money unless their is some greed in you. That's what he uses to get inside your head and mess it up while he takes your money.
How do I know this? Well, it aint because I'm sharp.
Originally posted by profitseer
right, what'd I say? Waldens Pond, see, now THAT"S philosophy.
You sure you're talking about the same tao? I mean the paperback version.
Anybody know of a good way to keep everything unorganized?
Like I said----> SCARECROWS AND APPLES...
And another ones gone and...
Bedtime, time to turn in, but turn into what?
I wonder who is the most incoherent, yourself or that tsaimoto cat?
I'm probably the most incoherent, But I never think about me, because I am selfless. As a matter of fact that's my mantra. I just say it over and over againOriginally posted by Te'
Like I said----> SCARECROWS AND APPLES...
And another ones gone and...
Bedtime, time to turn in, but turn into what?
I wonder who is the most incoherent, yourself or that tsaimoto cat?
I am selfless
I am selfless
(it helps if you do it standing in front of mirror)
If you see your self disappearing, then stop, because you might be becoming REALLY selfless, I mean like no more, vamoose, ixnay, asta la prego, salsa da my oh, me oh my oh where did you go now?
These five steps to should bring you closer to enlightenment:
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/march98/tao1.html (1/5) Taoism - Ageless Wisdom for A Modern World
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/april98/tao.html (2/5) Te - The Principle of Inner Nature
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/may98/tao.html (3/5) The Yin-Yang Principle of Harmony and Change
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/june98/tao.html (4/5) The Wu-Wei Principle
http://www.jadedragon.com/archives/july98/tao.html (5/5) Taoism and the Sage
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"Study the cat, Saihung. Everything you need to learn, she knows already." -- Deng Ming-Dao, "The Wandering Taoist"
This was beautiful, thank you for posting.